A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — formally left the group, known as ECOWAS.

The theme for 2025, United by Unique, emphasizes the need to acknowledge the unique experiences of each cancer patient and ...

The US withdrawal from the WHO will have a severe impact on HIV, polio and many other health programmes on the African ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek began his continent-spanning walk in Ethiopia in January 2013. Since then, his Out ...

That tactic to “smoke them out,” as described by a prominent Cabinet minister, was condemned by one of South Africa’s biggest trade unions. Police and the mine owners were also accused of ...

all without breaking the bank,” says Time Out of South Africa’s oldest city. To compile the annual list, the company surveyed more than 18,500 city-dwellers, as well as its own panel of 100 ...

The 15 January confirmation hearing for President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the State Department offered an early glimpse into the future of US-Africa relations over the next four years.

In a 2014 report, the World Gold Council noted that vast amounts of gold were smuggled out of Africa yearly. This includes 25 tons smuggled from South Africa worth over $1 billion (R19bn), 30 tons ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — Rescuers and volunteers have ... South African government’s decision to try to “smoke them out” by cutting off food and other supplies for a time.

At least 78 dead bodies have been retrieved from a discontinued gold mine in South Africa where police cut ... on desperate people trying to eke out a living. Police said on Wednesday they have ...

Sebei said some miners had died crawling through flooded tunnels in an attempt to reach shafts that would have allowed them to climb out. Police ... of gold-rich South Africa.